They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men by Kathleen Courtenay StoneMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Looking through the thirty+ pages of notes and index at the back, any reader can quickly see that They Called Us Girls is a well researched and thought-out story. What all those nuggets of information fail to clue the reader in on is that reading They Called Us Girls is like sitting down with your favorite sister and reminiscing about the most adventuress and courageous aunts to have ever graced a family.
These stories are written with the tender heart of a kindred spirit and interspersed with Stone's own micro-memoir to further guide the reader through the experience. First we are introduced to Stone's father, then her mother. Each mini-biography follows the same formula, and with the empathetic story-telling of the writer, the reader is soon enveloped in a family saga. And it feels like it's YOUR family saga. The seven women of They Called Us Girls defied the "NO" of their generation and achieved goals the women before them were not even able to dream about. What a thrill to go along for the ride.
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